GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY: Parenting Styles

1.Review and reflect upon the types of parenting styles/childrearing practices.

A) Which parenting style best reflects how you were raised? Give two specific examples.

Ans. There was a check on all acts whether good or bad and my parents took a lot of interest in my upbringing.

B) How influential and relevant do you think your parents choice of styles was on your type of attachment? Define your attachment type with use of specific examples.

Ans. They've always showed in fact even now they are very protective and take interest in all problems and situations whether education, job or family issues.

Do you think your type of parental attachment is relevant and related to your feelings regarding adult attachments/your view of relationships with friends/romantic partners?

Ans. I think it depends the way children start sharing their problems with their parents and it's that trust that makes the relationship really great. If there are inhibitions from the child's side it means there's some kind of communication gap which should not be in the perfect case.



2. Elkind in Vanishing Markers, states that teens and children are pressured and forced into activities, roles, responsibilities and freedoms for which they are not yet psychologically prepared. He believes that childhood/adolescence have lost their unique features and meanings, and that in prior generations, importance and value were given to the process of maturation which enabled children/teens to experience their development as special and worthwhile. Provide three specific, personal examples of a Vanishing Markers in your own life.

Ans. Family features such as socioeconomic status, family structure and family size may play a role but findings for all of these are inconsistent. Conclusive research shows that siblings tend to be more helpful when their mother is present versus absent. There is also significant research with regards to child-rearing practices although these have also been inconsistent at times. This will be reviewed in more detail. The family environment is significant in the development of prosocial behaviour, as the marital relationship and other significant relationships provide the models for caring relationships in the household, as well as for the values of that family (David Elkind 1989). The quality of child-rearing and early companionship has been shown to have a profound impact on prosocial behaviour. As one way to stimulate prosocial behaviour, it has been proved that inductions are effective in providing an adequate level of arousal for learning by giving the child explanations or reasons why they should be empathic. These explanations should be affectively charged too, particularly with children aged 2 or 3 years. However, these explanations should also not be too emotionally charged, as this may be guilt inducing and not stimulate prosocial behaviour (David Elkind 1989). Thus inductions are effective but should be verbalized with emotion and reasoning and should be part of a pattern of democratic parenting.

Parenting styles that include power-assertiveness and physical punishment with a deprivation of privileges, have either had no relationship or a negative relationship on the ...